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www.sawg.org.nz Turning Talk– September 2009

TurningTalk Issue No 180 September 2009 Newsletter of the South Auckland Woodturners Guild

Turning Tomorrow’s Treasures

Gwilym says: “When I posted “Only Dogs Do That”, I was asked as to how it was turned. Making this piece was the result of seeing an endless segmental turning entitle “On and On” by American turner Jerry Bennett. I was intrigued by the “How did he do that” factor and this was my interpretation. The first step was to make a 3mm diameter wire armature to the required form and mark it off in 4” sections. In this case, there were 17 sections giving an overall length of 68” (Photo 1). To save on a lot of basic turning, two 1 1/8” diameter broom handles were utilised and these were cut into seventeen 4” sections. Each section was then cut into eight 1/2” segments and a 5mm hole drilled in each one, and then placed on a rack (photo 2. The body of the snake varies in diameter from 3/8” at the tail through a maximum of 1” and back to 5/8” at the head. To achieve this, each section of eight segments is mounted on a mandrel and turned to the appropriate taper. Four horizontal lines were drawn at 90, 180, 270 and 360 degrees to use as datum later and each segment was numbered before removing the tapered section from the mandrel and placing it back on the rack to prevent mix-up (photo 3). In order to glue up the segments in a circular form on the armature, each segment had to be sanded into a wedge cross-section and the included angle of the wedge had to be calculated. Because of the varying curvature of the armature, the radius of the curvature of each section had to be established. Given this radius, the circumference that the section was a part of is calculated and dividing this by 4” gives the number of sections in that circumference. Dividing 360 degrees by this number gave the included angle of that section and

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Photo 1– Wire Form

Photo 2– Segments on Rack

Only Dogs Do That By Gwilym Fisher

Gwilym Fisher is a Welsh Turner who generously agreed to me sharing this exceptionally striking segmental turned piece with members along with his notes and photos on how it was con-structed. He originally posted the piece on the “World of Woodturners” website and it also featured as the cover of the December 2008 edition of “Revolutions”, the newsletter of the Association of Woodturners of Great Britain. Gwilym shares his technique for this piece for members inspiration below. Thanks Gwilym– I trust that some of our mem-bers will be inspired to tackle their own segmental turned pieces.


In this issue:

Coming Events 2 Shavings 3-4 Meeting Reports 5-6 Aoraki Strikes Again 8 Tool Review 9 Sharpening Standards 10

SAWG COMMITTEE

President Dick Veitch 298 5775 Vice President Bob Yandell 537 3815 Past President Michael Bernard 094256782 Secretary Mark Savill 267 9965 Treasurer David Jones 299 5110 Editor Chris White 268 0969 Members: Mac Duane, Cathy Langley, Terry

Meekan, Terry Scott, Les Sivewright, Don Wood,

Webmaster Rex Haslip 267 3548

Club Meetings:

Wed nights - 7.00 pm (Doors open - 5.00 pm)

Club Rooms: Papatoetoe Community Centre, Tavern Lane, Papatoetoe, South Auckland, NZ

Contact us: Website: www.sawg.org.nz Correspondence: Mark Savill 26 Glenross Drive Wattle Downs Manukau City [email protected] Newsletter contributions:

[email protected]

Club calendar All the activities listed here are in our clubrooms in the Papatoetoe Stadium Community Centre, Tavern Lane, Papatoetoe.

On our regular Wednesday evenings, the official meeting starts at 7.00pm. For those wishing to make use of the machinery, do some shopping, check out our library, get a little extra advice, or just socialise, the doors open at 5pm.

We have a Table Prize for each term. This is your work on display - lessons learned (half-finished, flawed, or failed) to the best you can do, brought to the Show-and-Tell table each meeting.

TERM 3 2009 September Wed 2 Laminating Demonstration presented by John Whitmore and

Bernie Hawkins Wed 9 Cruise around Australia presented by Peter Coatesworth Sat 12 Working Bee 8:30am—10:30am Sat 12 Ornamental Turning from 11am Wed 16 Getting the best from Routers and Router Jigs presented by

David Dernie Wed 23 The Bush Block and a Bit of Carving presented by Ross and

Heather Vivian. End of Term Awards Wed 30 Clubrooms Open (no formal meeting or demonstration)

Coming events

Coming up in the next few months: September

5-13 Franklin Arts Festival, Pukekohe

11-13 National Woodskills Festival, Kawerau

19-20 Woodcraft 2009 Sale and Exhibition, Guild of Woodworkers

Wellington 25-27 SAWG “Participation 2009”, South Auckland Woodturners Guild Clubrooms, Papatoetoe

October 24 Richard Raffan Demonstration, South Auckland Woodturners

Guild Clubrooms, Papatoetoe 25 Richard Raffan Masterclass, South Auckland Woodturners Guild Clubrooms, Papatoetoe

30 Oct- 1 ‘Spin Around’ Waitaki Wood-workers’

Nov Clubrooms, Oamaru Racecourse

November

6-8 Tauranga Woodcrafters Annual Festival, Tauranga

2010

14-18 July 2010 Australian Woodturning Symposium, Brisbane, Australia More details on these and other events, check out the latest update on

www.naw.org.nz/whatson.htm

Mac’s Maxim of the Month:

“The longest journey starts with one small step”

Mac Duane

The South Auckland Woodturners Guild is a member of the

National Association of Woodworkers NZ Inc

and the American Association of

Woodturners


Get Well Soon Mark Savill, our treasurer, is currently a bit under the weather but in good spirits. From your mates at SAWG, best wishes for a speedy recovery Mark.

Chisel Purchases, Standards and Storage Dick Veitch has been out doing what he likes doing best (after turning)– spending money on turning tools. Each lathe now has 7 chisels comprising two small 10mm bowl gouges (sharpened to 35 and 55°), and one each of a large bowl gouge, roughing gouge, spindle gouge, skew and part-ing tool.

Additionally, after extensive consulta-tion with members and committee, sharpening standards for Guild chisels have been determined and all chisels at lathe stations are now sharpened to these standards. To assist members, these standards, as an “aide-memoire”, are on display at the grinders along with the permanently fixed-angle woodcut grinding jigs and “spacers”. Together, the jigs and spacers ensure the jigs are set up at the appropriate distances from the wheel and the chisels sharpened at the correct angle. At this stage, Cathy Langley and Phread Thurston are “accredited” to

induct members into how the standards are applied. On page 10 of this newsletter, the Chisel Sharpening Standards are reproduced.

Thanks to Woodcut Tools for their donation of two additional jigs.

Mac Duane has also been hard at work (once again) and has built chisel storage boards for each lathe. These make chisel selection easier (particularly for taller members) as the

chisel tip is always visible.

Sold Out! Terry Scott reports that Participation 2009 is now sold out so if you want to attend, best you get your name to Terry for next years Participation. Still some spaces available for the Richard Raffan Demonstration Day 24 October but David Jones tells me that he can only take names now for the Masterclass on 25 October in the event of a cancellation. Still some space for a couple of observers if you would like to watch the Masterclass.

Big Burls– 9 Tonnes of Kauri Burl Alby Hall of Northland has provided details and photos of a 9 tonne Kauri burl after excavation from a Northland swamp. Almost left behind as not worth excavating, a chance glimpse of some mysterious “bulbous” shapes prompted a rethink and it was lifted out.

Cleaned, sanded and 6 layers of laquer later, it was bolted to a specially built pallet and shipped to Taiwan in 1997. The sheer size of the burl meant that the brick wall of the building that it was to be displayed in had to be

demolished in order to get it inside. Alby says that only about one in a thousand Kauris develop burls so a beautiful, 45,000 year old, 9 tonne example warranted coverage on national Taiwanese TV and gained the owner plenty of visitors from all over Taiwan to his shop that sells traditional wood carvings. Eat your heart out guys but think of how many burl bowls and table tops that could have come out of that.

Situation Vacant Having worked tirelessly for longer than he cares to admit, Rex Haslip is now ready to hand over the manage-ment and maintenance of the SAWG website to a new Webmaster. Contact Dick or Rex for more information on this critical element of the continuing success of our Guild. Training and support will be available to someone willing to take this on.

Speaking as a recent “conscript” (to the role of SAWG editor and having never edited before) I can say that it is very rewarding and I am sure that taking on the challenge of webmaster will be an equally rewarding and learn-ing experience for one of our mem-bers.

New on the Web Manawatu Woodworkers Guild Inc. now have their own website located at www.mwg.org.nz

Good looking site and worth a visit. Congratulations MWG and Trevor and Teresa Gillbanks who have demonstrated how quickly you can learn to be a “Webmaster”- volunteers for SAWG anyone?– see situation vacant above.

New Members Welcome to Ian Connelly and Rex Ste-ven who have both recently joined the Guild.


Shavings

Gordon Pembridge with chisel standards on display behind grinder

Chisels displayed in stand at lathe


And the Prize for the best Club Night Report (ever?) goes to... Wendy Tsai for her “unique” report which along with the accompanying email to Chairman Dick is going to take a lot of beating for innovative reporting and humour. Read it on page 6. Great stuff Wendy!

Mystery Tool Set Apparently everyone was mystified as to what this tool set was last month as I didn’t get any suggestions as to what it might be.

It was on Trademe described as being “Clamps for Furniture Restoration”. Previously belonging to a master carver, they were designed to be used both for furniture restoration and for inlay and marquetry work. This months Mystery Tool set (below)belongs to a Franklin turner. Any guesses as to what it might be? Some clues: the owner tells me that he made it about 50 years ago and is very much in the mould of the good ol’ kiwi “#8 fencing wire” thinking. Very effective, he has used it for automotive applications but uses it today in his woodturning.

Caption Competition I did ask for printable captions which causes me a problem as the best can-not be printed.

A selection of some of the responses (submitters names respectfully withheld)

“For sale to the townsfolk of Bulls”

“What every ‘turner dreams of” “Squeeze, I think I am going to

fart” “Black Butt” “Sorry Mac, didn’t recognise

you with your waistcoat on” “Never trust a fart once you are

over 50” “Must be a Woodturner with all

that bark hanging on”

Franklin Winners Good SAWG representation in the awards from the Franklin Arts Festival– congratulations to the following:

Section 1 Hollow forms 1st Terry Scott 2nd Dick Veitch

Section 2 Decorated platter 1st Terry Scott 2nd Carole Knowles

Section 3 Undecorated Bowl 1st Terry Scott Family 2nd Chris Jensen

Section 4 Lidded Box /Miniature 1st Luke Crowsen 2nd Dick Veitch

Section 5 Ornamental 1st Dick Veitch

Section 6 Franklin Woodturners “Members only” award

Dick Veitch

Best Overall Exhibit Terry Scott

Buying a Raffle Ticket pays! Maybe not a Franklin winner but Carole Knowles also turned this piece from her prize in a recent raffle. Not only does our raffle each club night provide funds for the Guild to pay rent, it also gives winners some great pieces of wood to turn.

SAWG on the Web I recently got an email entitled “You made the News”. Initially I thought “Spam” however It turned out that the Black Hills School of Woodworking from South Dakota, USA, have included us in their latest online news-letter “Woodezine”. As you will appreciate, I was relieved that it wasn’t yet another reference to a local SAWG turner (whose name we won’t mention and which automatically goes to my spam folder) but was a legiti-mate reference directing surfers to the SAWG website. See for yourself at www.woodezine.com (presently under “Current Issue” but probably about to be archived to back issues) Dick Veitch had his Franklin Award win-ning tubes chosen as “Photo of the Day” on World of Woodturners on Sept 5. Congratulations Dick.

(Continued from page 3)


Shavings (cont’d)

Carole Knowles– 2nd Decorated Platter


Club Night Action 5 August

Andrew Bright– Pepper Mill Alan Day

Andrew Bright President of the Franklin Woodturners Club, showed us how to make a "Pepper Mill" in 19 easy steps, or 15 for the quick way- ha ha! He brought handouts with all the dimensions and sizes shown plus the two methods of producing the Mill. It all started because his wife brought home a white pepper mill, and asked him if he could make one ?,so he picks up a piece of wood and produces one, and friends would admire it when his wife used it and say, "can you make me one too?” So far, Andrew has made 30 !! First Andrew showed us a spindle blank, crossed the cor-ners to find the centres, and used a centre punch to mark the middle, he then got out of his box a blank already rounded ? ! much laughter, as we all know how to reduce the square to a round by starting at the ends. He uses a Ceramic Crush Grinder mechanism from Car-roll's Woodcraft Supplies in Victoria Australia with a 15 year guarantee, it costs AU$25, more expensive than the Carba-tec one, but the main rod has a push fit lock and can be easily shortened with a hacksaw blade, whereas the Carba-tec one has a threaded end, and one would have to recut the thread if the length was reduced. The drills needed are 22-35-38-45mm, an auger plus Forstner bits, Andrew drilled the 22mm first, the size that goes all the way through the mill body, using the hand wheel on the Tail Stock can be time consuming, to wind it in and out, reposition the tail stock etcetera, so after the first cut Andrew left the lock off the tail stock and pushed it in, and pulled it out to clear the flutes manually ! a sight to behold, quick too. He also has a drilling tool with a Morse taper and two cutters set at 38 & 45mm to take the grinding mechanism. Andrew had a Job Card with all the lengths and sizes marked out, and transferred them onto the work, for the Beads Coves and Ogees with a hacksaw blade part off, and using an ingenious device invented by an Ameri-can Chair maker, he took them down to the required depths, the Gadget is two thin blades set at 90 deg and a sliding piece in the middle which pushes back and rotates a lever on a measured scale marked on a back plate, really useful for multiple diameters. Andrew used a Roughing Gouge to rough out and then finely finish some curves, a small bowl gouge was used for the rest with great dexterity, and a pleasing finish overall. Time didn't allow for sanding, but a coat of sealer would have been applied, then a wax finish. Dick Veitch expressed our gratitude and thanked Andrew for sharing his knowledge and showing us how to make a Pepper Mill - there was much acclamation.

19th August

Hands On Bob Yandell

The evening was attended by Gary Troup, the Deputy Mayor and local councilor, and he was pleased to see the club in such good heart. The developments of the area in Old Papatoetoe, where we are located, are nearing final planning and the result will be available for review in the coming weeks. Gary has been a strong supporter of the Club and appreciates what we have done in the commu-nity. The Show and Tell session had a range of work from mem-bers showing their “homework” and Rhys Hanna had brought his latest timepiece. This clock was again an amaz-ing example of the intricacies of clock making but this clock required the maker to have served his apprenticeship on making other timepieces be-fore the designer would sell you the plans. There where less than 20 ever made and it was unique in design and con-struction. Past President and Life member Jim McCarthy brought some early additions of Face Plate (club magazine?) and photos of the early toy making projects carried out for the children in hospital. They will be available from the Secre-tary for members to review. It was great to see all the lathes in use as members worked on their term project or sought advice on different problem pieces of wood turning. 26th August

Spindle Turning– Jim Newland After an interesting impromptu round-table discussion led by Terry Scott on the problems of satisfactorily pricing turners product, Jim Newland explained how he, after a request from his wife, “turned” his hand to knitting needles. After early trials using dowel, lacebark and po-hutokawa, Jim now uses North American Hickory. He can turn down to 4mm with good results but this is the smallest he can do. Warning against using the skew as it tends to apply too much downward pressure, Jim turns approx 100mm at a time and advances the now-turned part needle through the tailstock to do the next 100mm. Final embellishment is done with a “skew driver” made from an old Phillips–head screwdriver. Good demonstration Jim (the spilt blood was worth it!)

Deputy Mayor Gary Troup (R) with Mac and Gordon

Andrew Bright

Jim Newland


Chicken Wings

Wendys “Fish Plate”

12th August

Wood Selection Wendy Tsai

Editors note: This is an impressive approach to a club night report and I wanted to share it in its entirety- including the covering email to Dick. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Great work Wendy and thanks for the effort– it definitely qualifies! Wendy reports: “As a beginner, I found that Dick’s demonstration was very interesting and helpful. Being a new turner I should have some knowledge of wood and I’ve already found that wood source is such an important thing to consider for the future. The following is what I learned from class and I hope I’ve got them right: Wood comes from trees; therefore a healthy living tree is better than a dead tree! Reasons: When a tree is dead for tooooooooooo long, it will dry under the sun and have holes and crack lines inside.

* I’d fully agree with that because it just like a good Chef, they will always get meats, seafood and vegetables fresh from a market instead of using frozen ones.

From a good growing tree, there are good parts to be used – it will always be the Joint place between branches and routes to the main branch.

* I understand it because from Fried Chicken Wings, I can tell the meat at the joint part is always more firm and smoother than other place.

Cutting a tree is always Men’s job because the chain saw is very heavy (around 50 kg).

Wood will shrink laterally, and the shrinkage on circumference is more than diameter shrinkage. So it takes Skill to part them. Also store them in a dry place with air flow, this is important. Usually it will take yearssssssssssss to wait for them to dry.

* From BBQ Pork I can tell that the center part is always stronger than its outside, because it is less moist and fatty. I would suggest that an Oven might be ideal for drying timber.

Cutting log to slabs and blocks is also a Men’s job. What I really need to remember is to label them: the name of the timber and the date when stored.

* I find it is quite important especially for a beginner. It just like after I mix the sauces with meats and froze them for several days, it’s really hard to tell what kind of meat and what part of the meat they came from.

Wet turning is also an option to someone like me. I don’t have the opportu-nity to use my own stored wood pieces, so I’ve learned to turn wood when it’s wet and then chose one of the following options for finishing:

1. Wrap it with newspaper and store it in a place with less moist; 2. Use freezer (for 24 hours) and fridge; 3. Boil it and then leave it for dry; 4. Soap it with the RIGHT detergent; 5. Microwave it for several times until it’s dry.

Personally I would choose to microwave the wooden bowl, and in the mean time I will put a piece of Salmon in the bowl to make Fresh Wood Smoked Fish. Thanks Wendy– ed

Dear Dick - our Chairman of the club Please find the documents attached. It's quite funny when every time I say "Chairman", because it reminds me when I was young and my first lesson in China was: "Long live - Chairman Mao, Long live - The Communist Party" Unfortunately "Chairman Mao" became history, and "The Communist" is forgetting by most of us. I'm not sure whether my article is what you wanted and qualified for club's newsletter, but I decided that I must write it to you to prove that I was listening and have learnt a lot in your class. Please excuse me when you read something that sounds delicious because I had to add some Chinese Culture to help myself in describing and commenting. Chinese Food was the main Cultural Aspect I remem-ber, so thanks for the many Chinese Restaurants out there! Anyway, long live - Chairman Veitch - Long Live! Ps: please send my Sincere Apology to Terry for TURNING his "Fruit Bowl" to a "Fish Plate" without Copyright (re: last picture in my article) Cheers Wendy

Email to “Chairman” Dick

Club Night Action

Label and Date Timber

Good and “not too good” areas of the tree

BBQ Pork

Lateral Shrinkage


dividing this angle by 8, (the number of segments in that section) gave the included angle that each segment had to be sanded to. This procedure had to then be re-peated for each of the 17 sections (diagram 1).

When all the angles have been calculated, the segments in each section are sanded to a wedge corresponding to the included angle relevant to that section (photo 4). This was done on a table with a mitre guide and a sanding disk. Two jigs were made to hold the segments to be sanded; one held the segment for one side to be sanded, the second jig was used to hold the segment for the other side to be sanded. The datum lines on the segments were used to locate the segments on the jigs for sand-ing (photo 5). As each section was completed, it was placed back on the rack to make sure that all the tapers were kept in sequence. Once all the segments were sanded, assembly was commenced. A segment with a 3mm hole was now glued at the centre of the armature and the segments were glued one by one, section by section from the cen-tre to the head position. Because the curvature of the armature is helical, each seg-ment had to be sanded at right angles to the previous sanding. This was done by eye, offering the segment up and making sure that the resulting face was square to the armature, the hole was centralised and the datum lines corresponded. When satis-fied, the segment was glued in place using CA adhesive. This process was continued until the last section where only half the segments were assembled leaving 2” for the snakes head. The procedure was now repeated again from the centre to the tail. The head and tail were now carved and the armature was cut leaving ½” protruding at each end in order to locate the head and tail. The tail was inserted into the snakes mouth and the head glued into position on the armature stub, then the tail was pulled back to locate on the remaining armature stub and glued. Some epoxy adhesive was then used to anchor the tail in the head making the as-sembly quite rigid. The snake was then carved into a slightly triangular shape making sure that the flat underbelly twisted naturally (photo 6). The scales were then burnt on using a pyrography and a mottled brown coloration achieved using a gas torch. All that remained was t mount the snake on a base. The piece was finished with three coats of sanding sealer rubbed back to 400 grit (photo on Page 1). Gwilym Fisher AWGB 9694

Thanks Gwilym for sharing this with us– great work.


Photo 3- Mandrel

Photo 4– Sanding Wedge

Photo 5– Using datum lines on sanding jig

Photo 6– Glued and Embellishing started


Aoraki Strikes Again!

Aoraki Course- Sunday 16th August Norm Gebbie

As usual, all participants to this course were given a warm welcome by Dick Veitch who was our tutor for the day as-sisted by Cathy Langley. After introducing ourselves with brief details of our work experience and interests, we were ready to start the lesson. Dick explained the main focus of the day’s lesson was to be spindle turning; making a foot roller and an egg cup. To start with, we were shown how to cut a blank of wood on the bandsaw to a set size and length for the proposed pro-ject- a foot roller. Dick then demonstrated the correct way to support the wood between centres, the safety rules for the lathe and the tools required. We were then shown how to turn the square blank to a cylinder using a gouge and a skew chisel. Then off to a lathe to do the same work on our own piece of wood. Having done some previous turnings, I do not have a problem with using a gouge chisel to turn a square piece of wood to a cylinder but I had always been nervous when using a skew chisel. However by the instruction and demonstration we had just been shown, I felt a lot more confident and managed a smooth even finish on the face of the cylinder with-out any “dig-ins”. Obviously I was learning from the lesson. Next we were shown how to mark the grooves, hollows and ends of the cylinder to form a foot roller. Returning to the lathe full of confidence, I quickly returned to reality when starting to turn the beads and hollows in even spacing’s and equal depths. It was more difficult than what I expected on what I thought was a simple project. Dick had made it look so easy. However with further instruction from Cathy, I managed to eventually produce a reasonably presentable foot roller. In the next lesson, Dick demonstrated the various stages of making an egg cup. Then back to our lathes to do the same. The most interesting and challenging part of this project was using a chisel to cut a hole deep into the centre of the cup and then turn the inside out to shape using the same spindle gouge. This I managed to do myself using “gentle cuts”. Two of my cuts were not gentle enough and the work piece was thrown out of the chuck. “Not gentle enough” Dick advised me. However there was no damage done and I was able to finish the cup section and complete the remainder of the project at home. Thanks to Dick and Cathy for their advice and encouragement. I gained considerable confidence in the day’s lesson as I am sure the rest of the class did. I must take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the friendly expert instructions which has been given by the tutors in the training days I have attended. They make every operation appear so simple and always correct any mis-take I am making without any criticism.

Norm Gebbie reports (unsolicited, I might add) on a recent Aoraki course he attended.

Largest Circular Saw Blade ever made? Member Bryan Peryer returned recently from British Co-lumbia where he photographed this circular saw blade (right) at the British Columbia Forest Museum in Duncan, Vancouver. Bryan says: “At 108 inches diameter (2.74m) it is claimed to be the largest circular saw ever made. It was used as a log cut-off saw on the log deck of the Chemainus Sawmill for 42 years. It has 100 replaceable teeth and weighs 455kg.” The 5 foot 9 inch figure superimposed in the photo is to scale!

Run out of room! Having run out of room (and time), in next months newslet-ter will be a tribute to Sam Maloof (1916– 2009), the con-clusion of Terrys “buggy” wood story from last month, an-other tool review if you have got some spare change and my own tale from the “Dark side” (metalwork) fashioning a new lathe stand. Finally lots of photos from this terms “Show and Tell” Table as well as the usual assortment of shavings etc. Until then, Happy Turning!


Largest-Ever Circular Saw Blade?


Tool Review Oh no another Toy !!! needed Terry Scott

Two new innovative sanders by T and T Design– see http://www.tandtdesign.com.au/ People keep sending me things to try- don’t they know that I am called “The Toolinator”?- If I cannot break something no one will! Two Such Items arrived in the mail with the request that I give them a “flogging” Passing this comment is like saying to a rally driver “OK, here’s a new motor- red line it until she blows”. Like a pig in …. I attempted to do just that with the new Blow Fly Sander and the Spider Sander by T and T design, the two Terry’s from, you have probably already guessed it by the names of their product, Australia. The Blowfly : A new bent on a flap sander that has a retaining wire that lets you change and replace different grit abrasive in seconds. Using paper backed sandpaper and fold-ing the paper in half, a punch is then used to punch a 3mm hole each side so they fit over the retaining wire. On receiving the blow fly I went on line and, yes, read the instructions. This was a first and I found that the BlowFly was recommended for a multiple of uses- “At one extreme it can be used for heavy-duty paint and rust removal, and at the other, detailed sanding, shaping, polishing and burnishing. Also very suitable for working on small and delicate items - it all depends on how you set up your BLOWFLY SANDER”. But I am a Woodturner so none of this really was me. I use flapper wheels in many sizes and forms for sanding inside long necked vases and hollow forms so thought “first step a vase”. Normally as shown on You-Tube “How to use the blow fly”, the work is stationary with the BlowFly being used in a drill or a drill press. I wanted to see how it would hack a good Flogging on a vase rotating at 1200rpm on the end of an extension. I soon learnt that with 100 grit paper it would not only clean up the inside but would wear 4 or 5 mm off the wall pronto so I had to change to 240 so it was-n’t too aggressive. I was surprised as I expected the paper may tear around the supporting rods but the pa-per wore out before that happened. I have since turned a handle that fits over the exten-sion so the shaft of the extension runs inside the wood rather than using my hand for a bearing (as it gets hot– bit of a slow learner). The sander needed some support as it was fair humming with the drill on full noise. Next I tried cutting the paper into strips so I could sand over profiles on a carved surface. No problems but once again I suggest a finer grit is used or a sandblasted effect will be had. Or alternatively, this can be used as a texturing medium. In conclusion this is a versatile bit of kit that is equally at home sanding back the boat trailer or finer detailed work. I told my wife “A woodturner is coming to stay for a couple of days”- well guess what I had to do! Paint the damn spare bedroom (me and my big mouth). We have colonial skirting and I have got to say, boy did the BlowFly work a treat on that. I’d like to see if The Two Ts (Terry and Terry– designers) could make a smaller version so I can get into a 25mm opening in a hollow form. As I go through conventional flapper wheels like you wouldn’t believe and at $8 each, it wouldn’t take long to pay for the BlowFly. I am sure most of you have a few spare rolls of sandpaper lying around in the “I might use that one day” box that would keep the sander fed. The Blowfly I am still playing with as this item works a treat on flat work but apart from the pictures shown ,I haven’t come up with an application that is really suited to a piece of work spinning at 1200rpm. But I will keep trying and let you know how I get on...

Blowfly (L) and Spider (R) Sanders

Another View

Blowfly in action

Spider at work on outside (upper) and inside (lower) of

Bowl


These standards apply only to the colour coded chisels that are at each lathe. This sharpening will be done only by approved sharpeners. Any club member may become an approved sharpener with appropriate training. Members own chisels, and the other chisels in the cupboard, may be sharpened as club members wish, preferably with guidance from an experienced turner. Small bowl gouge 35° Use the BLUE tool holder and the RED spacer Small bowl gouge 55° Use the BLUE tool holder and the BLACK spacer Large (13mm) bowl gouge 35° Use the BLUE tool holder and the RED spacer Roughing gouge 45° Use the BLUE tool holder and the GREEN spacer Spindle gouge 35° Use the BLUE tool holder and the RED spacer Skew 22° each side and 65° slope Use the YELLOW tool holder and the RED spacer Parting tool 60° Use the BLUE tool holder and the RED spacer

SAWG Chisel Sharpening Standards

Sharpen35o

Sharpen55o

Sharpen35o

Sharpen45o

Curve isarc of circle

Sharpen35o

Sharpen22o

each side

Sharpen65o

Sharpen60o


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110 Harris Road, East Tamaki PO Box 259 126, Greenmount, Auckland Phone (09) 274 9454 Fax (09) 274 9455

Ph 0800 444 329 (orders only) Email [email protected] Website www.carbatec.co.nz

Turning Tools Ltd Ian & Pauline Fish

18c Roseberry Ave Birkenhead, Auckland NEW ZEALAND 0626

Ph: 09 418 1312 Mob: 027 284 8815 Email: [email protected]

Alan Gater & Natalya Gater 21 Andromeda Crescent, East Tamaki, Auckland, New Zealand

T: 09 274 1700 F: 09 529 9081 E: sales@ gpsaws.co.nz

TIMBER

WOODTURNING BLANKS, SLABS & PLANKS - GOOD SELECTION TO CHOOSE FROM -

- RECUTTING AND MACHINING SERVICE -

PHONE OR FAX 09 238 6197

JIM DOWNS 15 COULSTON RD, R.D.2, PUKEKOHE EAST

Suppliers of Abranet and Klingspor abrasives sandpapers, discs and belts.

- Richard Lawton - Ph: (09) 575 7681


Place Stamp Here If undelivered, please return to:

24 Botanic View Rd, The Gardens, Manukau 2105, NEW ZEALAND

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO WOODTURNING

Original artwork and text by George Flavell

Now in its sixth edition with 58 pages of clear line drawings and text specifically aimed at the learner turner. Safety, tools, wood gathering, spindle work, bowls, hollow forms, and more.

Just $20.00, sent to the Guild Secretary (more if you live further than a local postage stamp away).

Available as Milled Timber, Slabs or Wood Turning Blocks

Rimu, Black Maire, Miro, Rewarewa, Tawa, Kahikatea, Rata & Macrocarpa

P.O. Box 7, Stratford, Taranaki Ph/Fax (06) 765 5219

Email: [email protected]

Owners of one of the first areas of native bush registered with a Sustainable Forest Management Plan in N.Z.

Motor Technologies Limited MTL Variable Speed

Drives Phone 09 917 1570 Fax 09 917 1573

Mini Lathes - FREE Loans

The Club has a few mini lathes available for use by

members, at no cost, in their home workshops, club events or in the clubrooms. They come ready to go (just plug & play) complete

with a Nova chuck and a set of tools. Usually they are available for two weeks, but de-pending on demand, extra time can be arranged.

Turning blanks and a variety of finishing materials are available for purchase at the club shop.

- Enquiries to Mac Duane, Tom Pearson

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